Polish - Architect | May 12, 1946 -
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
Daniel Libeskind
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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
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Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
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We will work with everybody for the good of New York.
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We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
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The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
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Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
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It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
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I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
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